Definitions for polyps

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Spelling: [pol-ip]

IPA: /ˈpɒl ɪp/

Polyps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in polyps (loppsy).

Definitions for polyps

noun

1. Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
2. Pathology. a projecting growth from a mucous surface, as of the nose, being either a tumor or a hypertrophy of the mucous membrane.

Origin of polyps

1350-1400; Middle English polip, short for polipus nasal tumor (later, also cephalopod, now obsolete) Medieval Latin, Latin pōlypus dialectal Greek poulýpous octopus, nasal tumor (Attic polýp

Examples for polyps

Then one of the polyps becomes enlarged and its form cylindrical.

Here we leave the group of polyps which form united families.

It feeds on crabs and small fishes, seeking eagerly for polyps.

The flying fish and the polyps are the habitual prey of the Physalia.

Some of the feather-stars are fixed, as the sponges and polyps are.

This pore as it opens gives to the polyps the opportunity of coming out.

Follow-up colonoscopies three years hence determined the presence or absence of polyps.

The first is called the polypidom, the second is the colony of polyps.

Known as polyps or adenomas, benign tumors in the colon have the potential to become cancerous.

The cells, which are the abode of the polyps, are not always alike in their distribution.